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Event Reminder: Tail Crag Volcanotechtonic Fault, Saturday 30th April 2022

Saturday 30th April 2022 at 10:30 am

Leader: Clive Boulter

Meet:  10:30 SD 239928 at small parking area near Stephenson Ground NNE of Broughton Mills. Car sharing is advised. The height gain c180m and about one third is on paths/roads, the rest open fell sides.  Clive has described the field trip on www.englishlakedistrictgeology.org.uk. Localities 1 – 9 will be covered on this CGS trip.  On the southern slopes of Caw an examination of Maar and Diatreme, volcanotectonic fault scarps, and columnar cooling jointed ignimbrite.

Clive has put together an introductory presentation. It can be downloaded via the link below:

2022-04-30 Tail Crag Maar-diatreme CGS Field Meeting Presentation
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Members Area Launch

It is finally here! The Cumberland Geological Society has a website members area. If you are a member and have opted to receive the newsletter via email you will have received an email with login instructions.

Presently you can access:

  • Present and past Proceedings (these are being added over the next days)
  • Magazine Subscriptions
  • Council Papers
  • Present and past newsletters

Coming soon:

  • Past Lecture recordings (where permission to record was granted)
  • Local Geology Questions and Answers

If you are a member who receives updates via post, or we’ve not sent joining instructions, and wishes to access all this new content please Contact Us.

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Summer Event List 2022 Published

Our excursion Secretary has published the list of events for Summer 2022. Please visit the Events page for more detail.

If you are interested in organizing or leading an event please contact us.

Location – Date – Start time

Tail Crag Volcanotechtonic Fault, South of Caw –  30th April 2022 – 10:30

Glacial Effects on SW Coast, Cumbria SW Coast –  5th June 2022 – 10:30

Keswick Building Stones –  15th June 2022 – 18:00

Corrie Glacier or Plateau Ice Cap, Swindale Head –  2nd July 2022 – 10:30

Sale Fell –  13th July 2022 – 18:30

Irthing Gorge Lower Carboniferous –  6th August 2022 – 10:30

Armathwaite Dyke Plus Nearby Geology –  11th September 2022 – 10:30

High Rigg –  28th September 2022 – 18:00

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Event Reminder: The Geology of Islay and Whisky, Wednesday 9th February

Wednesday 9th February at 7.30pm on zoom

Dr. David Webster

Meeting ID: 811 2888 6128 Passcode: 050739

The Islay archipelago has a great variety of geology: 2-billion-year old gneisses of the Rhinns Complex, a lightly metamorphosed late-Precambrian sedimentary succession including rocks deposited by ice during the time of a ‘Snowball Earth’, lead mines, and igneous rocks from the Silurian, Carboniferous and Palaeocene. Pleistocene glacial features abound and a recent archaeological dig has found evidence of probably the earliest human occupation of Scotland with ice-age hunters living on Islay some 12,000 years ago. Oh, and we have some nice whiskies too –many with geological stories to tell.